This blog is a cumulative learning experience that we partake in together. Other bloggers have one topic that they stay on and hammer home to their audiences, sometimes over years. Maybe this is a viable strategy, but I’m not sure I could write about the same thing over and over again for years on end.
No, I’d rather build on topics and insights from earlier posts and make the whole structure more complex and cutting-edge.
It’s been a while since our last recap, so, without further ado:
The First Principle of Strength
Instead of using old, outdated and rigid ideological systems to make sense of the world and inform decisions in the now, we should do something better.
I believe that a worldview based on a solid first principle is enough to ground people, but also allows for flexibility in solution-searching. Furthermore, a first principle cannot be compared to a rigid, tyrannical system like, say, the 613 mitzvahs of the Old Testament or the sacred tenets of Marxism (same system, really). People have to, for better or worse, struggle and search for their chosen principle on their own. As for the exact principle that I had in mind, well, I think it ought to be strength. But some of you hippies think that being strong = fascism, so go ahead and choose “freedom” or “fairness” instead and see how far that gets you. Spoiler: that’s how we got to the point that we’re at now.
Being What You Believe
In the ancient world, and even in modern countries like Iran, they still have an older view of belief and its relationship to being. What I’m about to say only sounds complicated, but I assure you that it is not. Give it a good Oxford try.
In the ancient world, a transgender was a man who acted like a woman. In the West, a transgender is a man who believes they are a woman. In Iran, the state provides gender reassignment surgeries to those who believe they are the wrong gender, because being has to be in line with belief, in their view.
I agree with that perspective. People add on and throw away beliefs like they would clothes that have gone out of fashion. Few adopt the correct behavior. People believe but they don’t become. We should change that. Instead of asking what a person believes, we should simply observe what they do and what they have become. The adoption of this kind of thinking will put an end to the tyranny of ideology.
Are you a nationalist? Don’t tell me - show me.
Is Russia Looking For Friends to Picnic With?
I think people misunderstood what I was going for here. I think I, myself, may have misunderstood what I said, initially. See, I started by pointing out that there was an article written by a Russian Senator saying that Russia needs to reach out to “the dissident underground” in the West. But, most of what the Senator was saying was that Russias political and intelligence class is completely clueless about what is going on in the West. He was saying that he, himself did not know much about dissident culture in the West, but that he at least knew that he didn’t know. A state of meta-ignorance, if you will. But that the situation with the government was even worse. The government doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know about the dispossessed dissident populists in the West.
Very grim and very, very believable analysis. My anecdotal experience with low-level spooks seems to confirm the lack of knowing. “You mean the Democrats?” comes to mind.
Instead of expecting any coherent pushback from higher-ups in the government or the same from foreign governments, we ought to get down to business and start organizing picnics, not politics with frens instead.
That’s all we can really do at this point.
A Strange War, No?
We are now 2 months into 2 weeks into 2 more cauldrons until victory in Ukraine.
The situation has officially become critically boring. Entrenched positions. Massive artillery barrages. Fighting for a few hundred yards a day. We are in a WWI-style war now.
One soldier explained it like this to me: the Russian army tries to surround and concentrate firepower on a given Ukrainian position. Russian artillery pounds the position for days. When they take a break, the Ukrainians send in more cannon fodder to fill in the gaps. The process repeats several times. Eventually the Ukrainians retreat, the Russian infantry clears the position and the process is repeated along a new line.
It seems that Russia is doing all it can to preserve their soldiers’ lives. But, at this rate, this war can go on forever. Ukraine can throw 7 million bodies into the trenches to slow the Russian advance and NATO can keep providing equipment for them. Unless the Russians start making big moves with big concentrations of soldiers, this war will turn into a long and bloody meat grinder. The only upside to this is that the West is bankrupting itself and thinking about opening a new front either against Iran or China, for some reason. Also, President Joe Brandon denounced MAGA people i.e., the populist right as terrorists again. They must think that they can defeat Russia via proxy armies, clot shots and homosexual propaganda otherwise they wouldn’t be moving to swoop on and arrest the people that the Gay Anal America Empire depends on to do their fighting.
According to Krieger, the Russian regular army is poorly-equipped and professional soldiers are expected to fundraise for their own units to buy drones, vests, boots, guns, accessories and so on. We will check back in with Krieger and hear what he has to say about the Donbass front. Hopefully it’s going better than the Kiev offensive.
The Eternal Kleptocracy
Putin offers Ukrainians Russian citizenship and then the FSB bans the entry of most fighting-age Ukrainian males into Russia to claim it.
The MOD draws a red line on attacks on actual Russian soil like Crimea and lands along Ukraine’s northern border. Ukraine attacks these positions in flagrant violation of the warning. And then nothing - everyone just shrugs.
Azov Battalion death-harpy crosses into Russia, rents an apartment in Dugin’s complex, picks up a bomb from a Ukrainian sleep cell guy, kills Dugin’s daughter in the FSB’s backyard and then calmly rolls into Estonia where she has since disappeared. Nobody in Russia is really surprised that such a thing could occur.
TV towers continue to spew propaganda in Ukraine. Bridges used for the distribution of supplies remain largely intact. Trains chug back and forth all over the country. The SBU commits acts of terror within Russian-controlled territories. Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are rounded up by the police and sent to endure shell showers from Russian artillery.
Ah well. Bardak.
Metaphysical Mumbo-jumbo
Basically, God(s) exists, but he’s up to no good. Zarathustra spoke, but you didn’t listen. Then you drove Heraclitus insane with your stupidity. Paul - you never read him and you never understood him. Finally, you rejected Marcion, whose only crime was trying to free you from the yoke of the Demiurge. Now, you wear your chains like ornaments and cuck for the Jews’ demon-god. Sad.
Also, spiritualism is a technology - a body of techniques that comprises a practice that allows you to level up internally. Empty rituals keep metaphysical newbies dazzled and occupied, but have no actual effect on your soul level or spiritual progression. Theology is a circle-jerk and as fake as Corona or the moon landing.
Russia From the Right
“Shit is totally fucked, but, hey, it’s getting better now and we’re cautiously optimistic.” t. Russian rightists.
/fin.
A New Political Grammar
A series that I abandoned for being too “above the shoulders”. Instead of trying to create a new political lexicon and grammar through top-down conceptualization, I intend to start incorporating into my posts and thereby create by doing. You’ll see what I mean later.
The Spook State
We used to hear a lot about how the bourgeoisie and the fat cats ran society. Others complained about the landed aristocracy once upon a time. Apparently educated conservatives believe that “managers” run the country. I assume they mean college-educated powerpoint-makers collecting stock options and bonuses while their eggs and minds turn to rot from the work and the adrenechrome Adderall.
Sure, those guys make a lot of money, influence cultural trends and are a caste apart that actively hates on der peasants and der proles. Some commenters seem think that I am credentialed enough to be one of them and that this blog is just a LARP. Nah. I worked too hard in school and college and burned myself out. Besides, being a nomad-writer is more fun.
The real problem that we have on our hands here is the spook caste.
Like a parasitical cancer, the spook state continues to expand into all spheres of society. The media, the hi-tech sector, the shadow financial sector, politics and culture and so on have been taken over by spooks and the spook agenda.
For all the ink spilled whining about “the libruls” and their lies, the dissident right could have instead spent that time analyzing the real problem and obstacle preventing a populist overthrow of the occupation government: the Spook State.
We need to understand their mentality, their methods and their goals before we can figure out what to do about it. But, because of fear and treacherousness, thought-leaders do their best to studiously ignore the glaring spook problem. Time to break the ice on this taboo topic.
The Reforms Have Stopped in Russia
Things were progressing along so nicely. But, for some reason, the firings and the shutdowns have petered out.
Patriots are let down and don’t even have a convenient Q anon equivalent hoax to pick their spirits up. Hillary Clinton may be facing trial by #DarkMAGAWW1WGA white hat, red nose, brown asshole, deep state patriots in America, but Russian patriots are under no illusions about the lack of progress on the home front.
I personally hope that things improve, because the articles that I wrote talking about Russia’s rightward turn were the primary traffic driver to this blog.
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The second season of Slavland Chronicles has been a lot of fun. Season 3 will begin with some more podcast-heavy content. I am deeply grateful to my Gab bros for promoting my work and keeping my spirits up with their memes. Also to the commenters - you guys are sharp.
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Do me the curtesy of recommending my stuff back.
Let the army be the true vanguard of Russia. - Ivan Ilyin, Russian Philosopher
Season 1: A New Right
Season 2: The Bardak Strikes Back
Season 3: The Return of the Marcionites
I don't think the Zman will be happy to be labelled a conservative by now.
He is widely read among those circles though. He writes for Taki, Ann Coulter retweets him and probably his goal is to eventually get quoted live by Tucker Carlson.
Presumingly that's why he can just describe and investigate the current societal rot in terms of the "how" (the managerial class), rather than the "who". The managerial thing is at the root of the "how" we get exiled from polite society - and also at the root of the more immediate "why" (because managers have to defend the creed). But it fails to account for many things: why the managerial thing described by Hampl's article is in place, why there are these specific taboos in place and not others, and so on.
There has got to be a cabal determining what's allowable and what's taboo, and how to let the creed trickle down to subordinates via the managerial society, to the masses via the media, to the dissidents via the secret police etc. The Zman, Jared Taylor do good analyses, but are notoriously reticent to talk about the very top of the chain.
I don't think at all you are larping with this blog, your views have been coherent in time. But I can't help not to notice, in jest, that you are the ultimate rootless cosmopolitan: you can't get citizenship from the places you feel you belong no matter how much you try, while the only passport you got is that one you really don't want.
This below is interesting and revealing about the real power of the managerial elite. Boris Johnson is at the top amongst them, and yet:
"TOWARDS the end of 2020, editors of major UK media outlets were summoned, one by one, and not for the first time, to individual briefings at Downing Street.
Apparently, all the meetings followed the same format. Each editor was shown into Boris Johnson’s office, where Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance gave a presentation about how a devastating next wave of ‘Covid’ was going to kill 500,000 people and cripple the NHS.
The usual bogus decontextualised data and ludicrously misleading graphs were waved in their faces. Then the two witch-doctors slithered out of the room and Johnson instructed the editors to get behind a winter lockdown.
At this point, one editor decided to interrogate the Prime Minister. He said something along these lines: ‘Come on, [...] There’s no justification for another lockdown – why are you doing this?’
Boris Johnson adopted a haunted and helpless expression, gestured towards the door through which Whitty and Vallance had just exited and said: ‘I’ve got to do what they tell me.’ "
https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/comedy/bob-moran/all-the-wrong-questions